The National Education Association — the largest teachers’ union in America, the one that’s supposed to be focused on teaching your children to read — just spent $1.7 million training activists to stage coordinated political protests at public schools on May 1st.
Happy May Day, comrades. Lenin would be proud.
Defending Education, the advocacy organization that monitors leftist indoctrination in K-12 schools, obtained the documents. They include something called the “May Day 2026 Host Toolkit,” a “No Kings Toolkit — May Day Strong,” and training materials from a four-week program called “Four Weeks of Power.” That last one sounds like a CrossFit class but is actually a political radicalization course for people who are supposed to be teaching long division.
The toolkit’s own language tells you everything: “This May Day will be a day of rallies, marches, teach-ins, labor actions, and a refusal of business as usual — because when those at the top rig the system, collective action is how we set it right.” That’s not education. That’s an organizing manual with a teachers’ union logo on it.
The training is being coordinated by the Midwest Academy, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools, and the NYU Metro Center. The Midwest Academy alone has received over $1.735 million from the NEA since 2015. That’s your tax dollars flowing from public school budgets into a union that funnels the money to professional protest organizers who then train teachers to use your children’s schools as staging grounds.
Follow the money one more step. Public school teachers pay union dues. Those dues go to the NEA. The NEA sends $1.7 million to an activist training academy. That academy trains teachers to stage “walk-ins” at schools — which the toolkit describes as events where parents, educators, students, neighbors, and “community leaders” gather in front of a school building 30 to 45 minutes before classes start, listen to political speeches, and then march into the building together.
That’s not a walk-in. That’s an occupation with better PR.
The toolkit also includes corporate targets: Hilton Hotels, Enterprise Rental Cars, Chevron, and Citgo — all accused by the organizers of supporting Israel’s military operations. Because nothing says “focus on the children” like teachers boycotting a rental car company over Middle East foreign policy.
The NEA isn’t even pretending this is about education anymore. The demands listed in the toolkit include taxing wealthy individuals, removing ICE operations, and expanding what they call “democratic participation.” In other words: soak the rich, stop deportations, and let us run things. Standard progressive wish list, delivered through an institution that exists to educate children and is funded by people who think that’s what it’s doing.
Both major teachers’ unions are reportedly endorsing and helping mobilize for May Day. They’re demonstrating against ICE — at public schools, where illegal alien families send their children, which means they’re essentially using those children as political props while pretending to protect them.
Here’s the part that should enrage every parent who packs a lunch and drops a kid off at school every morning. The NEA has $1.7 million to give to a protest training academy. Meanwhile, two-thirds of American fourth graders can’t read at grade level. A third of eighth graders can’t do basic math. But the union that represents their teachers has the budget and the bandwidth to organize a nationwide political action on a school day.
They can’t teach your kid to read, but they can teach your kid to march. Priorities.
